AB 932, as amended, Daly. Specialized license plates: professional sports.
Existing law authorizes a state agency to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and requires the DMV to issue those license plates if the agency receives 7,500 applications within a 12 month period, among other requirements. Existing law requires those license plates to have a design or contain a message that publicizes or promotes the state agency, or the official policy, mission, or work of the state agency. Existing law requires the DMV to charge certain additional fees for specialized license plates and deposit those fees in the Specialized License Plate Fund for allocation to the sponsoring agency, as specified.
This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation to apply to the DMV to sponsor a license plate program for the issuance of license plates bearing the
officially licensed logo, emblem, or trademark provided by a California professional sports franchise.begin delete The bill would require the DMV to issue those license plates if the Department of Parks and Recreation obtains 7,500 applications by January 1, 2018.end delete
The bill would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the California State Parks Account created by the bill in the Specialized License Plate Fund, for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California State Parks Office of Grants and Local Services, for funding local parks and recreation grant programs.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 5165 is added to the Vehicle Code, to
2read:
(a) begin delete(1)end deletebegin delete end deleteThe Department of Parks and Recreation shall
4apply to the department, pursuant to Section 5156, to sponsor a
5professional sports franchise license plate program. The department
6shall issue specialized license plates for that program if the
7Department of Parks and Recreation complies with the
8requirements of Section 5156.
9(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 5156, the
10department shall establish the specialized license plate program if
11the Department of Parks and Recreation obtains 7,500 applications
12for the specialized license plates on or before January 1, 2018, and
13meets the other requirements of this article.
14(b) Notwithstanding Section 5154, the Department of Parks and
15Recreation shall accept and use the officially licensed logos,
16emblems, and trademarks provided by California professional
17sports franchises for the license plate.
18(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 5157, the
19additional fees prescribed by Section 5157 for the issuance,
20renewal, or transfer of the specialized license plates shall be
21deposited, after the department deducts its administrative costs, in
22the California State Parks Account, which is hereby created in the
23Specialized License Plate Fund. The funds in the account shall be
24used, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California State
25Parks Office of Grants and Local Services, for funding local parks
26and recreation grant programs.
27(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department, in
28consultation with the Department of Parks and Recreation, will
29accept and make available pursuant to this article special
30professional sports franchise license plates.
Specifically, it is the
P3 1intent of the Legislature that the license plates issued pursuant to
2this section shall consist of a sports franchise logo, emblem, or
3trademark selected by the registrant to the left of the numerical
4series.
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